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davidshen84
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 Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2025 5:26 am Post subject: is /boot folder supposed to be empty? |
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Hi,
I have separated ESP and XBOOT partitions, and they are mounted on /efi and /boot respectively. I use UKI layout, and I use dracut to create the UKI. After I executed "boot ctrl install" and rebooted the system, it booted and seemed to work. I mounted ESP to /efi and found this folder layout:
| Code: | Permissions Size User Group Date Modified Name
drwxr-xr-x - root root 1 Jan 1970 /efi
.rwxr-xr-x 0 root root 19 Sep 2021 ├── .keep
drwxr-xr-x - root root 1 Feb 13:20 ├── EFI
drwxr-xr-x - root root 1 Feb 13:40 ├── grub
.rwxr-xr-x 122M root root 26 Jan 13:01 ├── initramfs-6.6.67-gentoo-dist.img
.rwxr-xr-x 18M root root 26 Jan 13:04 ├── kernel-6.6.67-gentoo-dist
drwxr-xr-x - root root 2 Feb 15:36 ├── loader
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However, after I mounted XBOOT to /boot, I found it was empty. Is this correct? Also, if it is supposed to be empty, then why do we need it?
Thanks
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Zucca
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It looks like you have all the necessary files under /efi, including kernel. To me it seems correct for /boot to be empty then.
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davidshen84
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Thanks, good to know I am safe.
But I'm very confused, what's the purpose of the boot partition?
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Zucca
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I still use /boot instead of /efi.
I simply have my /boot partition formatted to vfat. It pretty much contains everything OP has in /efi.
Some people split the efi stuff and linux boot files so they may have both /boot and /efi (or even /boot/efi).
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